ETHproductions, FontStructions

I'm a young college student who's into computer science. For 2 years when I was younger I spent hours a day creating fonts with FontStruct. My love of FS was driven mostly by my interest in geometry—I loved how simple shapes could come together to create such beautiful letterforms, and I continually strived to recreate and improve the most beautiful of these, whether FontStructed or not.

For a time I left FS to focus on creating video games. Then I got into coding. Now I'm going to college for CS. I have less time now to do the things I loved to do as a kid, but I've always come back to FS as an amazing place to be creative. If I have an idea for a font I'll come here and spend 10 minutes drawing it out. I haven't shared much for several years, but I can promise you I've still been FontStructing in the background.

If you would like to use one of my fonts commercially, contact me and ask about it. Make sure to leave an email address to facilitate contact.

Letters within letters! Type an uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter to nest them. Type a period for an inner square, and > for an outer square.

This was an experiment from several years ago that I found half-finished while looking for potential CounterComp entries. I added missing letters and quite dramatically improved the existing ones. It's not perfect, and some combinations don't work so well (I'm particularly unhappy with capital I), but I think it turned out pretty well nonetheless.

Beware: for some reason, the downloaded font is huge-about 6 times the height of most other fonts-which makes it look horrible in e.g. MS Word, due to the pixel optimization at "small" sizes. I'm not sure what causes this, and consequentially, I don't know how to fix it.

A funky idea that started with the A and expanded from there. Most letters are drawn by a single line winding around, although some are just not willing to follow this mantra. I found this half-finished while scrolling through my private FontStructions, looking for ideas for the CounterComp, and decided it was already an interesting entry :-)

There's an alternate, narrow set of numbers that can be reached with Shift+number (on a QWERTY, Dvorak, etc. layout); not sure which set fits the style better. Suggestions and critiques welcome for anything, and feel free to clone and poke around with it. Thanks and enjoy!

More of an experiment than an attempt at an amazing typeface, but I thought it'd be a fun entry nonetheless. Don't let the creation date fool you: I started this design in early 2014. There were many issues that had to be remedied before publishing, most notably the lack of characters and major discrepancies between the shapes of serifs (some were entirely triangular, others entirely curved). It's still heavily a work in progress. Suggestions are encouraged, especially for the Q and punctuation. Thanks and enjoy!

My first entry for Serifcomp. Originally created in 2013, when I still had little knowledge about the finer details of type design. I've made major changes to the original design while trying not to lose its original feel (avoiding diagonal strokes, for example). I ended up making major changes to M, Q, T, W, f, k, m, q, r, t, and w, and minor changes to a bunch more; a ton of kerning was also required. It's not very polished yet, but it's a start...

Some alternates are available in Latin Extended A. As always, suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks and enjoy!

- N, *, (, and ) were completely redesigned, and many more touched up, to fit better with the rest of the font.

Most of the edits made were not possible before nudging. It's still not perfect, but it's much better than it was before, and I'm proud of how much it has "grown up". Of course, suggestions and critiques are encouraged. Thanks and enjoy!

An attempt to make a very readable sans similar to what you would see on streetsigns, utilizing larger curves than the average FontStruction. Uses 3x3 curves on the uppercase and 2.5x2.5 on the lowercase/numbers. A few alternates in Latin Extended-A. As always, suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks and enjoy!

Inspired by a font I saw in a children's book. The artist had drawn a map of the world on canvas and used a tiny serif font to label important points on the map. The letters had such a cute hand-made feel to them that I just had to recreate it in FS.

Uppercase letters are 6 grid squares (3 bricks) tall; lowercase are 4.5 (2.25 bricks). IIRC nudging had recently been introduced; this definitely would have been impossible without it.

Inspired heavily by dm Solidus (and several other fonts by demonics), and also by Modular Blackout Bold Condensed (now private, but you can see a sample here). More/less rounded alternates can be found in Latin Extended A. As always, suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks and enjoy!

(2017: This was another one that barely needed to be touched--the only edit I made was thinning the outer ring of the @ symbol from a full brick to half a brick wide. I'm getting toward the end of my collection of private but completely finished fonts though...)

Create your own license plate! Surround your text with () or []. Use '_' to get a truly blank space; use '|' for an uppercase middle dot, '\' for lowercase. Some alternates are available in Latin Extended A. Suggestions and critiques welcome. Thanks and enjoy!

(2017: I think this idea was sort of a spin-off of fs quotable. I was also experimenting with clean sans like this one at the time, which contributed greatly toward the design of the inner font. The () characters are new and a few letters (regular g, alternate g and Q) have been updated, but other than that everything's pretty much the same as 3 years ago.)

Here's what happens after I temporarily lose the ability to Fontstruct... ;) This started as an experiment to get around overshoots, but took of in a slightly different direction, with a touch of Uptake. Suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

(2017: Isn't it wonderful when you don't touch a fontstruction for 3 years and still don't see anything to improve? I don't remember why I lost the ability to use FontStruct—probably because of either a power outage or being in a moving vehicle—but I would guess I sketched this out in my graph notebook before getting back on the site.)

The long-awaited uneaten variant of fs cookie, fresh out of the oven. Many characters could likely be improved, especially with modern FS features such as nudging, but I'd rather not change anything from the original (for this version, anyway). Feel free to clone and edit as you please.

20278329
Published: 22nd November, 2014
Last edited: 21st November, 2014
Created: 27th October, 2014
My (late) entry in the GameComp, designed mainly for titles and logos. There will be more members of the family in the future. Any suggestions or critiques are welcome. Thanks!

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Published: 22nd October, 2014
Last edited: 6th August, 2016
Created: 27th April, 2014
An experiment with faux curves on a fairly small grid. It's been sitting around for a while, and I've finally decided to let it see the light of day. It was originally inspired by
Umbreon126's FS Vincons. Designed to work well at small sizes. Some letters could be better; any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

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Published: 21st October, 2014
Last edited: 19th May, 2018
Created: 10th May, 2014
Wow, it's been a while since I've posted anything here. This week I'll be releasing a few new fonts to make up for the six months I've missed out on. This one is a simple sans-serif font, good for spreadsheets and other techy things. Comments and suggestions welcome!

Another marker-style experiment, this time with inktraps. The grid size makes for many difficulties, so some characters could be better (S, Z, e, x, etc.). Suggestions are very welcome for these glyphs, or any others. Thanks and enjoy!
UPDATES:
5/16/14 S, Z, f, x, 2, $ and accents were tweaked by nudging. V1.1
1/30/15 The old, un-beautiful e and 7 have been fixed. Still looking for a solution for the 2. Also added Œ and œ. V1.2

6/7/16 Adjusted the 2 again; still not perfect, but better than before. Also narrowed the 7. V1.3

My final entry in the competition. Inspired by Mazey, zlabyrinths eYe/FS, and wavelength. Each glyph has its own maze, and each maze connects with the next. Tilde ~ and low line _ connect words, grave ` closes beginnings and ends, and the left and right arrows < > are for the start and end. There are also some alternates in Extended Latin A. Suggestions and critiques are welcome. Thanks!

UPDATES:
04/06/14 The whole font has been updated to be one brick taller, and thus properly fit onto a grid. Also, some characters have been redesigned. V2.0
05/13/14 All punctuation has been modified to continue a word maze. V2.1
07/05/14 1000 downloads! Hooray! As a 'thank you', I've completed more of More Latin. V2.2
08/22/14 I've made the accents part of the maze. I've also changed a few characters, and added Œ and œ. V2.3
08/04/15 Added Polish support with Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ś, Ź, and Ż. Tweaked a few characters as well, and added a crossbar to the ð. V2.4

06/18/16 Added support for multiple languages with more Cyrillic chars and punctuation. Also tweaked a few chars.

226738
Published: 20th November, 2013
Last edited: 21st November, 2013
Created: 19th November, 2013
Clone of Slyness. I've changed almost every letter in some way; some I completely remade, and some were slightly tweaked. Also, I've added in an all bricks tool, for easier editing.
Feel free to clone and change, as this is a collaborative effort.This is a clone of fs/13 Sly/9

48816512
Published: 13th November, 2013
Last edited: 19th November, 2013
Created: 7th August, 2013
My first (successful) blackletter font. This was originally inspired by demonics' Spirit, but didn't turn out much like it. There are alternates for Q, S, a, g, and s, and suggestions are welcome. Requires extra kerning...

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Published: 31st October, 2013
Last edited: 21st December, 2013
Created: 30th October, 2013
A fun speech bubble font. I've wanted to do something like this for a while, but I finally figured out how to make it when I saw this image.Press Shift while typing for a round bubble, and leave Shift off to make a cloudy bubble. Round [] and cloudy {} are for the ends of words. ` ~ are speech pointers (I don't know what else to call them), and + = are the same thing for thoughts. _ - are empty bubble space. Here's a copy-paste example: [I] {~love} [FONTSTRUC+T|]

226902
Published: 24th October, 2013
Last edited: 26th October, 2013
Created: 23rd October, 2013
The fifth of a series: dm Informe is a highly clean, modern, and technical face that is good for paragraphs or headers with a spreadsheet/tech feel.
This is a light version of dm Informe 01 by demonics. The propeller bricks, combined with a few composites, allow for near-perfect curves with a width of 1/3 of a brick, or 33% thinner than the macaroni bricks. Clone to see how it's done. It is designed to work well at small sizes, but it probably won't work as well larger. Special thanks to demonics, for creating the family in the first place, and for allowing cloning. The letters I least like are N and S, so suggestions are appreciated.This is a clone of dm Informe 01